Principal Software Engineer (Infrastructure Platform)
Principal Software Engineer (Infrastructure Platform)
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Your Career
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our team. You will utilize your extensive experience to shape and enhance our product. You will play a pivotal role in developing cutting-edge web applications that drive our cybersecurity efforts. Our Engineers are crucial in building and maintaining robust and scalable solutions.
This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus and in office 3 days a week.
Your Impact
As a Principal Software Engineer your key responsibilities will include:
Develop optimize test and maintain high-performance web applications: You will be responsible for ensuring our web applications are fast efficient and provide a seamless user experience.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design build and optimize features working on both frontend and backend aspects of our web applications.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams: You will work closely with designers product managers and other engineers to design build and optimize features ensuring our web applications meet the highest standards.
Qualifications :
Your Experience
To be successful in this role you should have:
- 8 years of experience in designing deploying and operating reliable and scalable systems in production.
- Expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS GCP or Azure) and solid skills in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Pulumi or similar).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (or equivalent) including cluster management scaling monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Strong background in implementing logging metrics and tracing solutions using tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK/EFK Jaeger or OpenTelemetry.
- Proven experience building maintaining and improving automated build test and deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
- Ability to design build and maintain internal developer platforms that improve developer productivity reduce friction and enable self-service for deployments and monitoring.
- Demonstrated ability to write clean maintainable and efficient code in Python or Go for automation tooling or platform services.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems design scalability fault tolerance and resilience engineering.
- A proactive and collaborative approach to problem-solving with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Awareness of security principles in cloud-native environments and experience integrating security into DevOps workflows.
Ideal Candidate
You should have experience working on high-performance web applications a strong proficiency in python or Golang and a good understanding of web application architecture
Additional Information :
The Team
Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between: $191000/yr to $215500/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship: Yes
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
